September 04, 1880

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Features

The Inspection of Steam Boilers

Dr. Tanner's Great Fast

New Appliance for Harbor Fires

Rain Theories

Effect of Starvation on the Blood

Making Profits out of Human Weakness

Miscellaneous Inventions

Improved Tea Kettle

Lawn Mowing Made a Pleasure

Concrete Fence Post and Sill

Novel Folding Stand

Convenient Portable Bathing Apparatus

Rope Jumping

American Industries.--No. 55

The Manufacture of Pumping Engines and Water Meters

Engineering Inventions

Some New Electrical Machinery

The Spotted Triton

By C. Few Seiss

Further Notes on the Northern Army Worm

By C. V. Riley

Decisions Relating to Patents

U. S. Circuit Court—Northern District of Illinois.

Nickel Plating

The Plating Bath

Communications Received

Departments

Departments

New Inventions

Correspondence

New Books and Publications

Index of Inventions

Business and Personal

Notes and Queries

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